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Where is Revit Heading – Find Out

If you are like me, you want to know where things you rely on are heading in the future, and how to influence that direction. The Revit Team knows this and responds by publishing their live public roadmap regularly and just posted the latest Sumer 2021 updates. Check it out,and bookmark it. Revit Public Roadmap Update | Summer 2021 Read more →

The Revit Perspective - How Project Information Modeling Revolutionizes Design

If you use Revit, there is an Autodesk Community Conversation with some Revit experts coming up July 14th, 2021. In a single generation, the very nature of design tools has evolved far beyond what we expected. In order to understand how to best move forward, this session examines the key events in the Autodesk world that have triggered these changes and how they continue to affect the way designers work. The session begins by reviewing milestones of products such as... Read more →

Join in the Autodesk Community Conversations

Check out the past Autodesk Community Conversations recordings or see and RSVP the upcoming Community Conversations on the Calendar. Would you like to be a presenter for Community Conversations? See our guidelines and how to submit your proposal here Read more →

12 Amazing Computation Design with Dynamo Training Sessions

We have 12 Dynamo sessions in the bag, and these represent a wealth of Dynamo knowledge from two of the best, Sol Amour and Jacob Small. If you are looking to learn or up level your usage of Dynamo these are for you as well as join us for next session on How to Extend Dynamo this week where ou can ask your questions in the Community Conversation session. Dynamo Series Playlist on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdlF7MirPEC2yNFTGymESd3t7Xosfk9c2 How to Plan a Dynamo... Read more →

Materials and How They Put Some Skin in the Game of Revit Families with Donnia Tabor-Hanson

Materials make a family look like it is supposed to. Find how to search for materials and how to customize them. Building materials from scratch can appear daunting but with a little help it might be something to try soon. Also look at how materials get added to a family unnecessarily sometimes. Join expert Donnia Tabor-Hanson for this fun and enlightening session, hosted by Community Manager Kimberly Fuhrman. Thursday, July 1, 2021 RSVP Now To learn more about Community Conversations,... Read more →

There are 3 Autodesk Community Conversations This Week

Community Conversations are live, virtual events designed to allow you to gain expertise, connect with leaders and grow your community network. Understanding Remote Work Capabilities with Autodesk Software in Today's Industry Wednesday, June 16, 2021 10 AM PT | 1 PM ET (1 hour) Expert Elite member Dzan Ta In this session, Expert Elite member Dzan Ta will lead a discussion about the challenges and trends on how all stakeholders work in such a disconnected, remote environment due to current... Read more →

Livestream Ask Me Anything: Revit Roadmap for Generative and Computational Design Monday June 14th, 2021

Have questions about the future of Generative Design and computation in Revit? Join a panel of Autodesk product managers as they take on your questions and share what's in the development pipeline. Check the Revit product roadmap: https://trello.com/b/ldRXK9Gw/revit-p... Get your questions ready, and set a reminder to join the livestream on June 14, 2021 8am PT. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAIm1Fyf00Y Read more →

Two AEC Focused Autodesk Community Conversations Tomorrow June 3rd, 2021

Join us tomorrow for two Autodesk Community Conversations. Building the muscle for a Revit Family Thursday, June 3, 2021 8 AM PT | 11 AM ET (1 hour) Expert Speaker Donnia Tabor-Hanson Donnia Tabor-Hanson continues her Revit Families series to discuss how to start building some muscle for a Revit family once the bones and ligaments (reference planes and parameters) are set. We'll talk about extrusions, sweeps, blends, and such, both solid and voids with overall best practices for building... Read more →

The Revit – Have You Tried This List

Jeff Hanson, Senior Content Experience Designer on the Autodesk Revit team posted a great blog post highlighting some great features and tips using them that many may be able to benefit and pick up a tip or try something out. Check it out, I bet you learn something! Have You Tried? Investigating Revit features and workflows. Read more →

Get the most out of Revit Families – Expert Series from Donnia Tabor-Hanson

If you haven't joined for a session with one of our favorite Revit trainers and a Revit Family Counselor, Donnia Tabor-Hanson, you should. You can watch the recordings or join for the next in the series on Thursday June 3rd this week for valuable Revit tips and tricks and bring your questions. June 3, 2021 Building the Muscle for a Revit Family Once your bones and ligaments (I mean, your Reference Planes and Parameters) are set in a family it... Read more →

Two Autodesk Community Conversation Events this Week

This week there are two great Community Conversation events to join and learn great tips or get your questions answered. These session are recorded for those unable to attend. Revit Tips, Tricks and Troubleshooting with Paul Aubin AutoCAD Electrical with Tiffany Bachmeier For more Autodesk Community Conversation Events see the Community Conversations Calendar Read more →

The Smarter Way to Exchange DWG Across Disciplines

Autodesk has released the new Design Collaboration Module that provides a means for easy cloud collaboration with DWG files in Revit. “What’s the Design Collaboration module? Design Collaboration is a web-based product module included in our cloud offerings BIM Collaborate (for project reviewers) and its Pro version (for design authors). Our Revit-reliant customers have been using Design Collaboration to manage the exchange of design data between teams ever since BIM Collaborate Pro, formerly “BIM 360 Design”, was launched.” Read more... Read more →

What's New in Revit 2022

This YouTube playlist highlights 37 new features for design productivity, interoperability, documentation efficiency, and developers in Autodesk Revit 2022. Revit 2022 Playlist Some Direct feature video Links: The Shared Views feature makes it easy for you to share 2D and 3D views and sheets of your Revit project across the project team. Improve your conceptual design workflows with seamless FormIt Pro integration. Revit 2022 helps structural engineers place steel connections quickly and accurately using automated tools and predefined ranges of... Read more →

Revit 2022 Sneak Peek –Today

Jeremy Tammik provided a heads up on his Building Coder blog to a session with Revit Product Managers Harlan Brumm and Sasha Crotty today at 12:30 Pacific Time and another full what's new session on April 13th. Link: Sneak Peek, Automatic Column, Arc Angle, Career Read more →

Dealing with Office Occupancy with a Dynamo Mega-Graph

My colleague, amazing developer, fellow blogger, and good friend Kean Walmsley published a timely and informative third article in a series on how to use Dynamo to evaluate safe office occupancy in the age of COVID virus. The latest in the series is Building a Mega-Graph. COVID Office Occupancy: Single-Objective Optimization COVID Office Occupancy: Multi-Objective Optimization COVID Office Occupancy: Building a Mega-Graph Read more →

Learn About Revit Automation and Generative Design

There is a free Autodesk eBook now available on learning about how automation and generative design can empower you to meet new challenges and shape the built environment of the future. The Future is a Design Challenge eBook ”Solving tomorrow’s challenges with automation and generative design “ autode.sk/2W3H6f0 Read more →

Revit Public Roadmap & Ask Me Anything

The Revit Team just launched a Revit Public Roadmap built upon Trello. Revit Team Roadmap Update Blog Post: autode.sk/36qrdEl Check out what's in development here: The Live Revit Public Roadmap The Revit Team is holding an Ask Me Anything live-stream from Autodesk University next week at Autodesk University – which is free this year. Get your questions ready, the team will be bringing the answers. Live Revit AMA 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Wed, Nov 18, 2020 “Revit Product Roadmap... Read more →

Generative Design in Revit - Have You Tried?

Learn how to use Generative Design to develop a restaurant layout. What is Generative Design ? Generative Design in Revit allows you to leverage Dynamo graphs to explore outcome-based solutions for your designs. You define criteria and constraints for the design problem. Then Generative Design uses this information to iterate many possible solutions, presenting them to you for further evaluation. When you decide on the optimal solution, click a button to integrate it into the model for further development. Why... Read more →

Revit 2020 - People Flow Toolkit

On Friday, Autodesk released the People Flow Toolkit, an add-in that helps you automate path of travel analysis with tools for social distancing. “The People Flow Toolkit extends Revit’s Path of Travel toolset to help you understand how people will move through your design. The People Flow Toolkit is available as an add-on with Revit versions starting at 2020.2. With the toolkit, building designers can automate, visualize, and analyze the routes within a model to understand the impacts of physical... Read more →

Opensource CivilConnection and CivilPython

Autodesk’s Global Delivery Consulting (GCD) employees create innovate and impactful tools and solutions for our customers. Autodesk Global Consulting Delivery employees – Paolo Serra, Ian McGregor and Mohamed Ahmed – turned a manual and error-prone process for transferring data from Civil 3D to Revit into an efficient and scalable solution that enabled real-time information exchange using Dynamo. Over the course of several years, the solution evolved into a popular product feature and eventually moved to open source. CivilConnection and CivilPython... Read more →

Ask Revit Experts Anything this Thursday

Coming this Thursday is an Ask Me Anything session where you bring the questions and Sasha Crotty, Harlan Brumm, and Aaron Vorwerk deliver the answers. An AMA with the product people that make Revit. Join Autodesk product experts Sasha Crotty, Harlan Brumm, and Aaron Vorwerk as they take questions from you and the community about what goes on Inside the Factory. What happens to error reports? When will Revit have slanted walls? Ask Me Anything “AMA” Thursday: 12pm EST: https://youtu.be/hoinpQq1Gbo... Read more →

Inside The Factory With People that Make Revit – Performance Matters

I always enjoy seeing who are working hard behind the scenes of most anything I use or admire, and that goes for Autodesk product teams as well. In this first Inside the Factory episode posted to the Revit Blog Inside the Factory, it is of candid conversation that focuses on Performance with Harlan Brumm, Sasha Crotty, and Aaron Vorwerk. Harlan, Sasha, and Aaron are working hard to continually improve the products Revit customers use day in and day out to... Read more →

Using Generative design in Revit to Evaluate Social Distancing

In this day faced with the COVID-19 virus, architects and building owners have had to re-evaluate social distance in the programming of their building spaces. With Revit's latest release 2021 you get generative design to help accomplish this challenging task efficiently and fast. Read more and see the sample data sets in the Revit blog article. New studies for Generative Design in Revit offer approaches to social distancing ”Autodesk® Revit® 2021 debuted the ability to create generative design studies directly... Read more →

Join Us for a Virtual AEC Hackathon

Over the next couple of weeks there is a online virtual event going on for those in the AEC industry. Some of the presentations are free to attend, but the registration is cheap at $25 to see some of the potential cutting edge silo busting ideas and the hackathon team solution presentations. Come learn something, a new perspective, a new technology, a new contact, a new potential solution to a challenging problem in our industry. For a great deal of... Read more →

Autodesk COVID 19 Resources and Projects

Many of of our jobs and industries are changing due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, with many looking for resources and information on how to change quickly, and safely. Autodesk has created a resource center to support you with details on special programs, remote working assistance, learning, industry resources and Autodesk Foundation information. Autodesk COVID-19 Resource Center If you are in the AEC industry, I would strongly encourage you to look at the Return to Workplace information and resources. https://www.autodesk.com/campaigns/aec-return-to-workplace... Read more →